It costs £65,000 to
imprison a person in this country once police, court costs and all the
other steps are taken into account. After that it costs a further £40,000
for each year they spend incarcerated.

The regeneration (social cleansing) of Milton Keynes must be stopped
& the unaccountable criminals who are running Milton Keynes Council
must be removed & made accountable in the public's best interest
in order to put public faith back in to the running of Milton Keynes
Council. Milton Keynes Council does not have a viable long term affordable
housing policy which is a failure of all the local political parties
not just one of them. There are not any good, honest, honourable people
who work for Milton Keynes Council just a bunch of truly ignorant unaccountable
inhumane criminals who are a danger to their constituents.

Please will you kindly tell me if Labour will repeal the Vagrancy Act
1824 which makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg. Anyone in England
and Wales found to be homeless or to be trying to cadge subsistence
money can be arrested. I am sure you do not need me to tell you that
criminalizing the homeless is a windfall for one special interest group
— the private prison industry.
Yours Sincerely

David Mortimer

Housing benefit cuts 'put
young people at risk of homelessness' 6th March 2017

Not only are these cuts putting
young people at risk – we don’t think the savings add up.
If the cut forces more young people onto the streets – which we
think is likely – then it could actually end up costing the government
more money than it saves, due to the associated costs of housing homeless
people.

The most comprehensive evaluation
of housing related support services estimated that £1.6 billion
investment generated net savings of £3.4 billion to public spending.
Preventing homelessness is far more cost effective than dealing with
it once it has occurred. The minimum cost saving of preventing someone’s
homelessness compared to accepting a homelessness duty is between £1,300
and £7,700. If somebody ends up street homeless the costs are
even greater: it is estimated that one person sleeping rough costs between
£8,605 and £35,000 a year in crime, emergency health and
social care services alone.

National research demonstrates
that homelessness & rough sleeping impacts significantly upon a
person’s health & puts greater demands upon the health service,
with 41% of homeless people attending Accident & Emergency Departments,
31% being admitted to hospital, 28% using an ambulance and 82% having
visited a GP at least once within a 12 month period.